General Chat

I've kissed the Blarney Stone. It did nothing

My g x 4 grandfather was (apparently) the heaviest man in England at the time of his death (1842) If you google that, you get fattest man in England, and I don't know who that distant relly on Romseynet is!!!

I come from a long line of Bal Maidens (female Cornish iron miners) on one side of my family

Walter ran over me on his bike in Arbroath in about 1962

I spent 6 months in Banchory Sanitorium (formery Glen o' Dee, where Somerset Maugham based his story Sanitorium) I don't know exactly when (between 1960 and 1963), and I don't know why - but Ian in the next room had TB - so I may be a carrier of 'something'. Apparently not TB 'cos my GP checked :-D But we were living in a converted bus in a field of cows at the time :-D

My parents weren't hippies!

I am distantly related to Petula Clarke but I don't think she goes round boasting about it.

I was born in the same room as my grandfather had been some eighty years previously.

I don't like wine, cinnamon or chilli.

My lovely grey cat is called Desmond Darkcloud after a character in a Richard Digance song.

I once had a Molluccan cockatoo called Albert who had been an unwanted gift to some people who owned the Wessex Bookshop in Chichester. He was like a disturbed child when he first came to live with me, poor neglected boy.

Hi Jemima :-)

1. I'm a chatterbox, too!

2. I have a welsh maiden name

3. When little I did a charity swim and completed a mile in lengths. My poor Dad
had to ask his boss for a small fortune

4. I live on a farm

5. My brothers are musicians but not me. When I wanted to give up the piano the
teacher thought my mum couldn't afford the lessons, so offered them for free.
I had to continue until she dropped dead :-( :-0 :-0

More from me.....

1. I can ride a horse.

2. One of my photos was chosen to be a Christmas card by the District Council chairman and another was requested for a magazine cover.

3. I have had Scarlet Fever.

4. I am related to Sir Bernard Ingram via my grandmother's cousin.

5. I sat my 11 plus exam at age 7 but failed it.

Trying very hard to think of 5 things

I am adopted

My Birth Mother knew the Kray Twins

I once saved a young girl from drowning

I met and shook hands with Terry Waite

Ozzie Osbourne gave me a ring when I was about 15(well I think it was Ozzie)

I have identical eyebrows to Sir Bernard Ingham.

I have never dyed my hair.

I have very stylish handwriting.

My eyes are not any particular colour, sort of grey, greenish, brownish, hazelish.

I had a sort of natural talent for gas welding and could do it on my first attempt.

1. I bite my nails

2. As children, when we saw John Cleese on tv, we thought it was our Dad

3. I used to keep poultry

4. I'm a bit of an insomniac

5. I passed my driving test after 6 lessons and am a rubbish driver :-0 :-S

1. I prefer listening to radio than watching TV.

2. My favourite fictional writer is John B Keane (1928-2002).

3. My favourite radio reporter is Fergal Keane (1961 - ) - nephew of the aforementioned John B Keane.

4. My favourite historian is Will Durant (1885-1981).

5. Words are my insanity.

I am quite shy when you meet me for the first time

I have been interviewed for both local newspaper and local radio, different areas, different times

I learnt to swim at 50. even though I grew up by the sea.

I used to be a foster Mum

I met Petula Clarke, but I doubt that she remembers it.



I am hoping that I haven't repeated myself from last time but wouldn't bet on it Lol!! Edit one repeat so:

When I was eleven years old and going home from school after detention (so not on the dedicated school bus which didn't stop), I ran out from behind the bus I got off to cross the busy main road (1951) in the dark to catch my bus home, and knocked a male cyclist off his bike. He wasn't hurt but wasn't pleased either. He shouted at me and I wet myself!! And still caught my bus.

I was born n a private maternity home...which when I looked it up a few years ago to see if it was still there,found it now is ....a Chinese Embassy!

I am an only child,but certainly wasn't spoilt.

I was made to play the piano when I was 7 ,rebelled when I was 9 as wanted to play out.My mother drew the curtains so that children calling for me couldn't see me and made me practise for an hour before allowed out.

Had 2 operations for cancer.one aged 13 ,it came back and had a 10 hr op and radium needles in my neck at 16,told I'd never have to work hard...that's a laugh....my wonderful surgeon kept in touch with me and visited me a number of times and wrote about me in his book.

I have curtseyed to the Queen Mum in Westminster Abbey,met Princess Margaret,Duke of Kent and Angus Ogilvy,all at different times..